Age structure, changing demography and effective population size in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

Genetics

Volumn 182, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1233-1249

  Palstra, Friso P ^a   O'Connell, Michael F ^b   Ruzzante, Daniel E ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC SALMON; DEMOGRAPHY; DENSITY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC STABILITY; LIFE HISTORY; METAPOPULATION; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIMULATION;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SALMO SALAR;

SALMO SALAR;

EID: 70350176183     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.109.101972     Document Type: Article

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